Leanne O’Sullivan was born in 1983, and comes from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. She received an MA in English from University College, Cork in 2006. The winner of several of Ireland’s poetry competitions in her early 20s, she has published three collections, all from Bloodaxe, Waiting for My Clothes (2004), Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009), winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2010, and The Mining Road (2013). She was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award in 2009 and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011, and received a UCC Alumni Award in 2012. Her work has been included in various anthologies, including Selina Guinness’s The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) and Billy Collins’s Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003). Residencies and festival readings have taken her to France, India, China and America, amongst other locations. She is currently teaching on the MA in Creative Writing at UCC.
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News
- The “Struga Poetry Evenings” are part of the “Festival of Hope” Friday April 24th, 2020
- The acceptance speech of Amir Or, the recipient of the Golden Wreath for 2020 Tuesday March 24th, 2020
- Fjalimi përshëndetës i Amir Or, fitues i ,,Kurorës së artë” i vitit 2020 Tuesday March 24th, 2020
- Autori Izraelit Amir Or është fitues i çmimit ,,Kurorë e Artë” i INM për vitin 2020 Saturday March 21st, 2020
- The Israeli poet Amir Or is the recipient of the “Golden Wreath” award of the SPE for 2020 Saturday March 21st, 2020
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